Oxneria fallax
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Oxneria |
| Species: | O. fallax
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| Oxneria fallax | |
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Oxneria fallax, also known as the hooded sunburst lichen, is a small yellow-orange to red-orange foliose lichen that grows on bark or rarely on rock or bone.[2] It is found all over the world except very dry areas.[2][3]: 130 [4]
The non-fruiting body (thallus) grows in rosettes to 3 cm in diameter.[3][4] The rosettes sometimes coalesce with each other.[4] The lobes may appear divided at the tips. It is sometimes tightly appressed to the substrate (adnate), and sometimes not.[3][4] The fruiting bodies (apothecia) are lecanorine, meaning that they are disc-like with a ring or rim of tissue around the disc that is made of tissue similar to the thallus.[3] The tips of the lobes form hood shaped soralia that produce powdery greenish yellow soredia.[3] It prefers growing on elm or oak bark, but can also be found on rocks, bone, or other wood types.[3] In Norway, it has been recorded growing on the bark of various sun-exposed broadleaved trees, including Acer, Betula, Fagus, Fraxinus, Populus, Tilia, and Ulmus.[5] Lichen spot tests on the surface are K+ (purple), C−, KC−, and P−.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Oxneria fallax (Arnold) S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, Ukr. bot. Zh. 60(4): 431 (2003)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ a b Goward, Trevor; McCune, Bruce; Meidinger, Del (1994). Lichens of British Columbia. British Columbia: Ministry of Forests Research Program. pp. 138–140. ISBN 0-7726-2194-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
- ^ a b c d Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001, [1]
- ^ Lindblom, Louise; Blom, Hans H.; Timdal, Einar (2019). "The genus Xanthomendoza in Norway" (PDF). Graphis Scripta. 31 (7): 54–75.
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